NAME

Catalyst::Manual::Internals - Catalyst Internals

DESCRIPTION

Lifecycle

These are the steps of a Catalyst request, every step can be overloaded to extend Catalyst.

handler
  prepare
    prepare_request
    prepare_path
    prepare_cookies
    prepare_headers
    prepare_action
    prepare_parameters
    prepare_uploads
  process
  finalize
    finalize_headers
    finalize_output

These steps are normally overloaded from engine classes, and extended by plugins. Extending means using multiple inheritance with NEXT.

AUTHOR

Sebastian Riedel, sri@oook.de

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.